*Raises hand* - I'm tentatively predicting the collapse of Russia, within 20 years or so. But there's a lot can happen between now and then. Very broadly, we are much better off if we are i… (View Post)

But there wasn't a movement west. That is the '1066 and all that' version. The modern Welsh in, say, Cardiganshire, are to a surprising extent the genetic descendents of Britons who li… (View Post)

Richard is describing the process more articulately than me. But just to take issue with Whispering Oracle's point upthread about the ethnic cleansing being not something they wanted to record: … (View Post)

I think current thinking on the AngloSaxonification of England is a bit more complicated than that. I'm fascinated by this period of history and read quite a lot about it. It's a bit of a f… (View Post)

We have to remember that a large part of the reason Trump is president is that the Democrats tried ridiculously hard to make themselves unelectable. They don't seem to have learned their lesson.… (View Post)